Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Iridium Satellite, LLC

13h•Hybrid

About The Position

If you enjoy learning about and working with breakthrough technologies and are enthusiastic about working in the space industry, then you will be excited about the Senior Engineer opening with Iridium for a Space Development Agency (SDA) project. As the Senior Engineer within the Ground Systems Development team, you will be responsible for software development and maintenance for the Mission Software and supporting applications, while utilizing advanced knowledge of mission planning, data routing and management. Additionally, the Senior Engineer will identify and autonomously implement ideas/solutions within the larger development team to support cross-functional efforts across all areas of ground system software development.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, or other engineering discipline
8+ years software programming and/or support experience with mission planning and/or network management
Understanding of mission planning, data routing and data management concepts
Coding experience on Agile based teams
Ability to comprehend technical documentation
Have a positive attitude to take on ever increasingly complex development tasks.
Passion for working in a team driven environment consisting of operators, software testers, senior developers, and system engineers.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey products, deliverables, analyses, and/or issues to groups outside of your team or those who are unfamiliar with the topic
Have confidence and be able to easily build relationships with leadership and colleagues outside of your team
Possess an analytical mindset, with the ability to understand a situation or problem and think critically to make decisions and come up with out-of-the-box solutions
Be proactive in providing feedback and be enthusiastic in sharing your knowledge with others
Capable of prioritizing your own tasks and potentially the tasks of others while making sure deadlines are met
Proactivity in seeking out ways to continuously improve yourself and gain new knowledge, including the ability to learn the different software that make up the System Performance and Analysis software
Be a U.S. Citizen

Nice To Haves

Experience with the following technologies:
Design and implementation of Kubernetes / EKS / Docker / Podman / ArgoCD
Design and implementation of RDS, VPCs, TGW, RedShift
Design and implementation of CI/CD Pipelining (GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, BitBucket)
Design and implementation of Kubernetes auto-deployment to AWS (Helm Charts)
Linux based environments and bash shell scripting
Possess AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification
Python / Java / C++ / Type Script / Perl
RESTful / HTTP / ELK or similar / WebSockets
XML / JSON / SQL
SQL (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL based DBs (e.g., Mongo)
js / Apache Web Server
Security Vulnerability Analysis and Procedures (CVE, TLS)
Evaluate Fortify findings and determine response to the findings
Evaluate SonarQube findings and determine response to the findings
Assist in SW development response to security findings
Atlassian management/software development tools: Jira / Git / Crucible / Confluence
Micro services architectures
Automated testing frameworks
Gov and non-Gov Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environments

Responsibilities

Develop and enhance software related to mission planning, data routing, and data management
Develop high performing/scalable App Cyber Security architecture and implementation to meet the requirements of the SDA project
Engage in cross-team DevOps, Ground and Constellation development to support AWS PaaS deployment environment and automation.
Work within the Agile/Scrum framework for software development (Atlassian tool suite desired)
Create or maintain build environments for software products
Play a key role in planning and executing software releases per stakeholder/program schedules and budgets
Update issue/feature data in Atlassian Project/Software tracking tools
Follow existing Iridium processes for Change Control, Prioritization, Risk Management, COTS Management, Build and Test software deployments and use advanced knowledge to assist in development of process/procedure documentation materials
Edit, structure and present data, concepts and arguments clearly and succinctly, through briefings and documentation
Respond to questions within scope from stakeholders